Vampires

>>8485874
Blood is toxic and will kill you if you try to consume it for meals

>>8485880
I want to see some proof for this.
Sounds like complete bullshit.

You might need some extra water because it's as salty as normal saline, but that's still not a real problem.

>>8485885
google it you fucking retard. Even 8th graders know blood is toxic and can't be fed on.

>oral administration vs transfusion
so which is it, OP?

>>8485885
Swallowing blood makes you sick to your stomach for a reason

>>8485874

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sausage

>>8485874
Nope. Hardly any nutrients, and it's toxic. Iron specifically is the issue.

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>>8485874
Vampires dont eat exclusively blood, they only need it because vitamin D, since they cant go in the sun light

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>>8485874
http://www.bydewey.com/drkporphyria.html
What do you think /sci/?. This proves vampires exist but everything said about them are complete bullshit

>>8486541
Porphyria is nothing like classical vampirism in any way. The idea that vampires could not handle sunlight is a 20th century invention and thus the association with porphyria is a 20th century misconception.

>>8486555
Then the need to ingest hemoglobin? the teeth appearing longer? the changes in behavior? the weakness to garlic? surely at least one of these isn't a Hollywood production.

>>8486582
>need to ingest hemoglobin

Popular misconception. Porphyria sufferers cannot obtain hematin from ingesting blood any more than you can obtain hematin from ingesting blood.

>the changes in behavior?

Common to all genetic disorders, and there are many more common than porphyria to serve as inspiration for folklore (how about lupus, for example?)

>weakness to garlic

Common to autoimmune disorders.

>the teeth appearing longer?

The reason people associated longer teeth with vampires is because gums would deteriorate in the coffin (the oral cavity is often the first to decay for obvious reason) exposing greater areas of the underlying tooth. Historically, many porphyia suffers wouldn't HAVE much in the way of teeth to expose in the first place. Dental hygiene standards in the early modern period were not great shakes. Many porphyria suffers came from noble (inbred) families and thus were exposed to high levels of refined sugar from an early age on. This coupled with early modern dental hygiene standards and you realize why George Washington (himself of English gentry descent) had no teeth by the time he hit the presidency.

In short, it's a nice thought, but no. It's too rare, too easily confused with other more common conditions to 17th century peasants and people with porphyria did not drink blood.